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the helen hamlyn research centre: design for our future selves the royal college of art: postgraduate art and design

Bo-young Jung

Design for our Future Selves awards 2005

Under the direction of Senior Research Associate Katherine Gough, herself an RCA graduate, a number of innovations were introduced to the Design for our Future Selves Awards programme in 2005. There was just one over-arching brief:

‘An architecture, design or communication project which addresses a social issue or engages with a particular social group in order to improve independence, mobility, health or working life.’

There was a three-stage process to reach the finals of the competition. A total of 89 second-year students at the RCA entered the awards in autumn 2004; 57 projects were shortlisted in the New Year and, following a further process of selection, in summer 26 became finalists in the 2005 Awards, competing for ten awards and a total of £8,000 in prize money.

Michael Castellana

There were nine awards: